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JAVAN SNIPE. 
(Gallinago saturata.) 
Ga. rostro subelongato apice tuberciilato, supra ex nigro satura- 
tissimo caslaneoque variegata, subtus paUidior. 
Snipe with its beak rather elongated and its tip tubercuiated^ above 
variegated with deep black and chesnut, beneath paler. 
Scolopax saturata. Horsfield. Linn. Trans, xiii. p. 191. 
Len^gth twelve inclies : at the base of the lower 
mandible is a small whitish spot : the anterior part of 
the neck is transversely banded with black and ches- 
nut ; the breast and abdomen are sooty-black with 
irregular dusky bands. This is one of the rarest of 
Javan birds, found once only near a mountain lake, 
at an elevation of 7OOO feet above the ocean. De- 
scribed as above in the thirteenth volume of the Lin- 
nean Transactions by Dr. Horsfield. 
